Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-09-17

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! men who had been for weeks with their
wounds undressed Of them
frozen to the ground. and when she
turned them over those that had an
arm left waved it and filled the air
! with their .'hurrah!'-of Mrs. Hodge,
who came from Chicago with blankets
and with pillows, until the men shout
ed: Three cheers for the Christian
! Commission! God bless the women at
home" then sitting down to take the
last MESSAGE: "Tell my wife not to
! fret about me. but to meet me in heav-
en-; tell her to train up the beys whom
we have loved SO well; tell her we shall
meet again in the good land; tell fc- -
bear my loss like the Christian wife of
a Christian soldier;''-and of Mrs.
Shelton, into whose face the GONZALES
cent soldier looked and said: Your
grapes and cologne cured me-" Men
! did their work with shot, and shell,
! and carbine, and howitzer; women did
| their work with socks, and slippers,
and bandages, and warm drinks, and
| Scripture texts, and gentle stockings Of
the hot temples, and stories of that land
where they never have any pain. Men
knelt down over the wounded and said:
''On which side did you iights" Wom-
en- knelt down oyer the wounded and
said: Where are you hurtP What nice
thing can l make for you to eat? What
makes you cryP' Tonight, while we
men are sound asleep in our beds, there
will be a light in yender loft; there
will be grooming down that dark alley;
there will be cries Of distress in that
cellar. Men will sleep, and women
will watch.
wONAN'S SrPERLATIvE RIGHT.
Again: Woman has u superlative
right to take care of the poor. There
are hundreds and thousands of them
all over tha land. There is a kind of
work that men cannot do for the poor.
Here comes q group of little barefoot
children to the door of the Dorcas So
ciety. They need to be clothed and
provided for. Which Of these directors
of banks would know how many yards
1t would take to make that little girl n
dressp Which of these masculine
hands would fit a hat to that little
girls headp Which Of these wise men
would know how TO tie on that new
pair of shoesp Man sometimes gives
his charity in a rough way, and it falls
like the fruit of a tree in the east,
which fruit comes down so heavily that
it breaks the skull of the mar who is
try ing to gather it. But woman glides
SO softly into the house of restitution,
and finds out all the SORROWS Of the
place, and puts sc quietly the donation
on the tab, that I'll the family come
out on the front step as she departs,
expecting that from under her shawl
she will thrust out two wings and 90
right up toward heaven, from whence
she seems to have come down. q
Christian young woman! Hyou would
make yourself happy and win the
blessing of Christ, go ont among the
destitute. A loaf of bread or a bundle
Of socks may make a heavy load to
carry, but the angels of God will come
ont to watch. and the Lord Almighty
will give His messenger hosts a charge
saying: Look after that woman.
Canopy her with your wings and shell
ter her from all HARM and while you
are seated in the house of restitution
and suffering, the little nes around
the room will whisper: Who is sheP"
Amt she beautifully And if you will
listen right sharply, you "ill hear drip
ping down through the leaky roof, and
rolling over the rotten stairs. the angel
chant that shook Bethlehem: GLORY
to God in the highest, and on earth
peace, good will to men," Can You
tell me why
CHRISTIAN WOMAN,
going down among the haunts of
~iniquity on n Christian errand, never
meets with any indignityp 1 stood in
the chapel of Helen Chalmers, the
daughter of the celebrated DIR. Cbal-
mers. in the most abandoned part OF
the city of Edinburgh; and | said to
her rs | looked around upon the fear
full surroundings of that place: ''Do
you come here nights to hold a SER
vice." 80, yes" she SAID. Can it be
possible that you never meet with an
insult while performing this Christian
errandp" Never" she said, ~"nevef."
That young woman who has her father
by her side walking down the street,
an armed police at each corner, is not
SO well defended rs that Christian
woman who goes forth on Gospel work
into the haunts of iniquiuy, carrying
the Bibles and bread. God, with the
red right arm of his wrath omnipotent,
would tear to pieces anyone who should
offer ndignity. He would smite him
him with l~ightnings, and drown him
with floods, and swallow him with
earthquakes, and damn him with eter-
nal indignations. Some one said: 81
dislike very much to see that Christian
woman teaching those bad boys in the
| mission school. l am afraid to have
her instruct them" 49, said an
other man. Il am afraid, too" Said
the first: Il am afraid they will use
vile language before they leave the
lace ''Ah,' SAID the other man, 81
am not afraid Of that. what ] am
afraid Of is, that if any of those boys
| should use a bad word in that presence
the other boys would tear him to pieces
and kill him on the spot" That woman